How to change your life in one second
Posted by iamstephanieong on April 10, 2009
Find a really sturdy brick wall. Go knock your head on it really hard. Ok maybe that will take 5 seconds to 10 seconds of action. After doing this you will probably have amnesia and your life will never be the same again.
Quick fix you may say and I should think so too. The reason why this solution was recommended is that because one of the barriers to changing one’s life is memory.
To illustrate there is this story of a young baby elephant that was taken captive. The captors chained her to a stake which is driven about few feet into the ground. When she tried to break free because she was still a baby, the stake was immovable. After a few days she gave up with the skin on her neck badly torn and bleeding.
Even when she grew up to be an adult elephant and had new strength she did not try to break free because she has memory of this defeat in struggle when she was young. Hence she remains captive through the stake which she could have easily pulled out.
Besides memory of failures, thinking about past successes can also be a hindrance to future achievement. I knew someone who always lament that he was the top student in primary school but when he reached high school his brain just freezed and did not develop. Hence he always glorifies his earlier days in school and wish that he could go back there.
How we utilize our memory by redefining our experience will determine the person we are growing to be. Recognizing, knowing yourself and tapping on your current strength can help you to move forward and will definitely change your life in a second. After all it is the little things in life that matters and it is the little changes in life which will transform.
